Can I lose my salvation?

The New Testament clearly shows that you can be sure you are a Christian and that you have eternal life. The apostle John in 1 John 5:13 gives the reason he wrote his letter of 1 John, “These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.” Notice that John says “that you have eternal life”, not “in the future you will have.” If you believe in the Son of God, you already have eternal life. That eternal life with God can’t be taken away or lost.

If you were to rely on our feelings, you could never be sure about anything. Feelings are changeable and deceptive. The promises in the Bible, which is the Word of God, do not change and are totally reliable. While you may or may not have a feeling of assurance, the security of your salvation is a fact based on the promise of God.

     John 5:24 says, “Truly, truly, say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.” Again we see that eternal life comes from “belief”. Here you have the promise that once you believe, you will not face judgment. You have already passed out of death into life. Your salvation is not dependent on your “being good enough”. Eternal life belongs to you once you “believe” in Jesus.

     The same promise is given in John 3:16, 18, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life…He who believes in Him is not judged.”

     Five times in the book of Revelation the apostle John refers to the “book of life”. The book of life contains the names of those who believe in Jesus and have eternal life. It is clear that a person’s name could not be erased from the book of life. Revelation 3:5 says, “He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life.”

     It is God’s work and not yours that makes your salvation secure. Ephesians 1:13-14 explains that it is the Spirit of God who assures your salvation, “In Him you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation-having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance.”

    Listen to this beautiful promise of Jesus in John 10:27-29, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.”

     You will continue to sin, but if you have genuinely trusted Christ as for the forgiveness of your sins, you can’t lose your salvation that God has already given to you.

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